Rewinding to Tuesday 1 July 1997…

Tuesday · Hong Kong, Hong Kong

The world on 1 July 1997 in Hong Kong.

Outside

28°C, rain

Moon

waning crescent

#1 song

I'll Be Missing You

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01The weather outside

It was rain in Hong Kong.

28°C/ 83°F high

Low of 26°C · 19.7 mm of rain · wind up to 14 km/h

The sun rose at 05:42 and set at 19:11 — 13h 29m of daylight.

Reconstructed from the ERA5 climate reanalysis — the closest thing we have to a weather time machine.

02The sky that night

A waning crescent watched over you.

11% lit · 26.3 days into its cycle

Looking up from Hong Kong that evening, you could have spotted Mars without a telescope.

It was summer in your half of the world.

03On every radio

The chart-topper that week: “I'll Be Missing You”

by Puff Daddy & Faith Evans Featuring 112 — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 11 weeks, taking over from “MMMBop”.

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04What a dollar bought

Your first receipt.

GENERAL STORE

PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1997-07-01

ITEM1997TODAYLoaf of white breadper lb$0.87$1.83Dozen eggsgrade A large$0.98$2.27Gallon of milkwhole$2.56$4.11Gallon of gasregular unleaded$1.21$4.48Pound of coffeeground roast$4.63$9.33Minimum wagefederal, per hour$4.75$7.25Median new homeUS sale price$145,000$393,300Postage stampfirst-class letter$0.32$0.78

BREAD COSTS 2.1× WHAT IT DID

US national averages · ≈ = estimated from inflation

05Your life in numbers

Since that day, you have lived…

0

seconds

and counting, right now

0

heartbeats

at a resting average of 80 a minute

0

breaths

give or take a few yawns

0

sunrises

1,530 weeks of them

0

full moons

have risen since your first night

0.00B

km travelled

29 laps around the Sun

Mark your calendar: you’ll be 1 billion seconds old on March 9, 2029 — 859 days from now.

06Born under

A Tuesday's child, under Cancer.

Star sign

♋ Cancer

Water sign

Chinese zodiac

🐂 Ox

Fire Ox

Birthstone

Ruby

for your month

Birth flower

Larkspur

for your month

Generation

Generation Z

1997–2012

Day of the week

Tuesday

07 — 11 Still sealed

There’s more to your day.

5 more chapters are waiting, rebuilt from the same archives.

  • Your star

    A real star in Eridanus, 29.5 light-years away.

  • The world that day

    2 moments in history happened on your exact date.

  • Birthday twins

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  • If someone had invested

    The stock market has grown about 8× since you arrived.

  • NASA’s picture of your day

    NASA published a space photo on your exact birthday.

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